Dear Dr Karve:
I can guarantee that using producer gas derived from charcoal will work fine in an IC engine. It will run a gas engine directly but you may be better served with a modified diesel. Phil Marsh Marshbros. 250 569-7858 From: Gasification [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lloyd Helferty Sent: March-07-14 7:03 AM To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification Subject: Re: [Gasification] using coal gas in i.c. engine ... Gasoline is "an unstable mixture" too ~ just light a match anywhere near it and you will soon find out. ;-) But in this case [where we wish to use it for energy production], "unstable" is a good thing. P.S. I assume that your last question about using "coal gas in an internal combustion engine" was rhetorical... Regards, Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada) www.biochar-consulting.ca 48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON, Canada 905-707-8754 CELL: 647-886-8754 Skype: lloyd.helferty Steering Committee coordinator Canadian Biochar Initiative (CBI) CURRENTS, A working group of Science for Peace http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/currents/ President, Co-founder & CBI Liaison, Biochar-Ontario National Office, Canadian Carbon Farming Initiative (CCFI) Organizing team member, 2013 N/A Biochar Symposium: www.carbon-negative.us/symposium Member of the Don Watershed Regeneration Council (DWRC) Manager, Biochar Offsets Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home= <http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475> &gid=2446475 Advisory Committee Member, IBI http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675 http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/ http://www.biocharontario.ca www.biochar.ca "Producing twice as much food with diminishing resources, without further loss of natural habitats and biodiversity and in a changing climate may be the greatest challenge facing humanity." - Lloyd Helferty On 2012-10-24 6:13 AM, Anand Karve wrote: Tar, a problem when using wood gas in an internal combustion engine, is automatically eliminated in the process of making charcoal.Charring does not require any input of external energy. Making coal gas from charcoal is also relatively simple. I was told that CO + H2 was an unstable mixture, but can one use freshly made coal gas in an internal combustion engine? Yours A.D.Karve -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
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